Recently added articles from Social Education:
Editor's notebook.(technology and instruction)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Young people are fascinated by technology, and teachers who find ways to convert their students' favorite devices into vehicles of instruction can look for exciting results. In this issue of Social Education, our Technology Department editors, Michael Berson and Meghan McGlinn Manfra, have ...
Teaching with documents, and documents, and more documents: the National Archives digital partnerships.(Teaching with Documents)
Apr 01, 2009; ... What if ... ... you were teaching a lesson on the French Revolution, and rather than assigning your students to read a section in their textbook on the subject, they could read Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Jay describing what he witnessed in Paris during early July 1789, ...
Where and why there? Spatial thinking with geographic information systems.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Social studies educators have long recognized the importance of developing students' spatial perspective on the world. The social studies curriculum includes many topics that involve an understanding of where people and places are located, the patterns of human settlement, migration, and ...
Teaching with rather than about geographic information systems.
Apr 01, 2009; ... In 1994, the National Council for Geography Education's Standards Project singled out Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as powerful tools for developing students' geographic skills and perspectives. (1) The group made two predictions. First, that GIS would eventually permeate business, ...
Making sense of social studies with visualization tools.
Apr 01, 2009; ... On January 20, 2009, Americans witnessed a historical event as Barack Obama took the oath of office and became the 44th president of the United States. While the general population reflected on the event, students in a U.S. government course were busy analyzing the inaugural address. In ...
Making connections: using online discussion forums to engage students in historical inquiry Whitney Blankenship.
Apr 01, 2009; ... Previous issues of Social Education have highlighted the benefits of using electronic discussion forums, including increasing citizenship skills, supporting historical inquiry, and enhancing classroom discussion. (1) Researchers have also found increased levels of student engagement, ...
Authentic intellectual work on school desegregation: the digital history of massive resistance in Norfolk, Virginia.(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of Norfolk Public Schools. On February 2, 1959, the "Norfolk 17" integrated the formerly all-white public middle and high schools in Norfolk, Virginia. Less known than their counterparts in Little Rock, Arkansas, the stories of ...
Worth the WAIT: engaging social studies students with art in a digital age.(Web-based Art Interactive Tool)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Artistic depictions of historical events can capture students' imagination. Art can also be used to develop analytical skills. To give a complete interpretation of any piece of art, one has to consider the context to which it was created. The events and emotions that bring a painting into ...
The "Day in the Life of a Teenage Hobo" Project: integrating technology with Shneiderman's Collect-Relate-Create-Donate framework.
Apr 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Used wisely, academic technology empowers students to take responsibility for their own learning. In Leonardo's Laptop, Ben Shneiderman provides teachers with a powerful framework, Collect-Relate-Create-Donate (CRCD), for designing student-centered ...
What I learned at the NCSS annual meeting--2008 edition.(Surfing the Net)(National Council for the Social Studies )(Viewpoint essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... This is my third time writing a column on Internet-focused sessions and exhibit resources at the NCSS annual meeting, which, this past November, met in Houston. I know that many readers don't have an opportunity to attend the annual meeting and that's a darned shame. School districts have ...
Supreme Court biographies as a classroom resource.(Looking at the Law)
Apr 01, 2009; ... In a recent issue of the American Bar Association's Focus on Law Studies, Editor John Paul Ryan moderated a dialogue among a small group of distinguished legal biographers about the challenges they faced and processes they went through in writing about their subjects. Supreme Court ...
Editor's notebook.
Mar 01, 2009; ... At a time of financial crisis and nationwide recession, the need to formulate effective economic policies is once again at the forefront of public debate. This issue's special section on economic education, edited by Mark C. Schug and William C. Wood, reminds us of the importance of ...
Frederick Douglass and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The debate over slavery was one of the defining issues in the United States from the writing of the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War. In 1773, Patrick Henry, best known for coining the phrase "Give me liberty or give me death" described slavery as a "lamentable Evil"' ...
How do tax laws reflect American values?(Looking at the Law)(Tiffany Willey)(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The American tax system is complicated and often confusing. Federal, state, and local governments all hold powers of taxation fundamental to their operation, producing sources of revenue for government services. There are many different types of taxes: sales taxes, property taxes, estate ...
The crash of 2008: causes and lessons to be learned.(Special Section)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The headlines of 2008 were dominated by falling housing prices, rising default and foreclosure rates, failure of large investment banks, and huge bailouts arranged by both the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. The wealth of many Americans has been substantially reduced and concern ...
Keynesian, monetarist and supply-side policies: an old debate gets new life.(Special Section)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Debates over how to promote a healthy economy are pervasive once more, after decades when it seemed such debates had been put to rest. The market meltdown of 2008 ended a long string of years in which monetary policy reigned supreme. Monetary policy is the regulation of money and the ...
Are High School Economics teachers the same as other social studies teachers? The results of a national survey.(Special Section)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Economics in the Curriculum and Economics Teachers Economics has assumed an important role in the social studies curriculum. In a 2007 survey, the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) reported the following: (1) * Economics is included, at least to some ...
Teaching ethics to high school students: virtue meets economics.(Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics)
Mar 01, 2009; ... When highly visible lapses in ethics occur, education gets some of the blame. Principals in the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and the Enron scandal had been educated at Harvard and other elite business schools, where professional and moral ideals had arguably been replaced by a focus on ...
Is free trade out of date?(Essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... During the recent presidential campaign, some prominent politicians called for a "time out" in negotiating new agreements to expand international trade, and others wanted to reduce it by canceling existing trade agreements. The stated concern is that trade with countries with low labor ...
Advanced placement economics improves both merit and equity.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In 1989, the microeconomics and macroeconomics examinations debuted on the Advanced Placement scene. At that time, many professors of economics were skeptical that college freshmen had the skills and maturity to understand the concepts in principles of economics courses. They thought ...